Character Disciplines

Now that you’ve chosen your character’s Focus, it’s time to determine the Power distribution your character will have in each Discipline.

Think of Disciplines as the areas in which a character’s abilities are. A character’s Primary Discipline will match it’s Archetype. This is because your character’s Abilities should fall in line with the main “theme” of your character. A Combatant will have a Combatant Primary Discipline.

However, in the Fyxt RPG it is important for players to know that every character can access what other Archetypes do. Meaning, which Power Effects they have access to for their Powers. This means a Combatant, can have a Secondary or Tertiary Discipline of Generalist or Mystic. This grants them the ability to have Powers with effects those Archetypes have access too. Basically, this means a “fighter” can heal. All characters can potentially access everything available to different Archetypes, they will just be of varying strength. Primary Discipline is the strongest, Secondary Discipline is the middle ground, and the Tertiary Discipline will be the weakest.

This is not the time to choose specific Powers, but rather to designate what kind of Power Pools each Discipline will use to create them.

Basic Guidelines When Choosing Disciplines

There are a few things to keep in mind when choosing Disciplines:

A character’s Primary Discipline must match the character’s Archetype.

A character may take the same Discipline multiple times. This will grant many Powers of the same type of effects.

A character may take several different Disciplines. This will grant many Powers of different types of effects.

Disciplines are made up of two distinct parts which can be combined in different ways to allow access to Powers that are very different.

If a player wants their character to be diverse, the Disciplines should reflect this.

Determine the specifics of the Disciplines you choose so you can build the rest of your character to complement the chosen Disciplines.

Each Discipline Has Two Parts:

Aggression: Will this Power Discipline be Offensive or Defensive.

Discipline: What type of Power Effects with these Powers have access to.

First: Choose Offensive or Defensive Style for the Discipline

Determine if the character’s main focus will be helping allies or hurting enemies.

Offensive Discipline Powers are designed to harm and hinder enemies.

Defensive Discipline Powers are designed to heal and benefit allies.

Second: Choose the Specific Discipline for Powers

Selecting the specific Discipline for each of a character’s Power Pools determines the overall type of effects available for the character’s Powers. You can select the same Archetype for Disciplines for Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary. Doing so will limit the overall number of effects the character will be able to choose for their Powers. By selecting and using different Archetypes for the Disciplines, players allow their character much greater flexibility throughout the course of the game due to ultimately having access to more Power Effects.

Your character’s Primary Discipline must be the same as your character Archetype. (Combatant, Generalist, Mystic)

Using these two steps a Primary Discipline that is Offensive Combatant, hurts or hinders enemies with Combatant Power Effects.

Using these two steps a Secondary Discipline that is Offensive Mystic, hurts or hinders enemies with Mystic Power Effects.

Using these two steps a Tertiary Discipline that is Defensive Generalist, helps and aids allies with Generalist Power Effects.

The above Discipline set is a possibility for a Combatant. This character’s primary strength is in hurting enemies with Combatant Powers such as doing damage. It’s secondary strength is in hurting enemies with Mystic Powers such as moving them back with moving an enemy away. It’s final strength is in the “backup” Discipline, the Tertiary Discipline, where it can use Generalist Powers to help and aid allies such as healing them.

Primary Discipline

The Primary Discipline should match the overall character concept and Archetype. Choose the sub choices that also match the character concept. A character will have at least one, if not two, other Disciplines to balance out the Power.

The Primary Discipline will also determine what the character’s At Will Powers will be. The characters At Will Power will match whatever the Primary Discipline is. If a players wants to have an At Will Heal ability, make sure the Primary Discipline is Defensive. If the players wants their character to have a damaging At Will Power, then make sure the Primary Discipline is Offensive.

Primary Discipline Style – Either Offensive or Defensive.

Primary Discipline – Automatically is set based off the Character’s Archetype.

Secondary Discipline

The Secondary Discipline should complement a character’s Primary Discipline or represent the second part of the character concept. This Discipline will not be as powerful as your Primary Discipline (unless the character is Balance Focused).

Secondary Discipline Style – Either Offensive or Defensive.

Secondary Discipline – This should match a character’s second most important Archetype (Combatant /Generalist/Mystic).

Tertiary Discipline

The Tertiary Discipline should complement the overall character. If the character is Devoted, they will not have a Tertiary Discipline. A Tertiary Discipline is good for utility and buffing powers. It will have a lower Power Cap than the others as well as a smaller pool of Points.

Tertiary Discipline Style – Either offensive or defensive.

Tertiary Discipline – This should match a character’s least important Archetype (Combatant /Generalist/Mystic).

This should be the final step in conceptualizing a character.

If you haven’t noticed, we have spoken very little about the actual mechanics of the Fyxt RPG system. This is purposeful. Through several decades of D&D gaming, we’ve discovered that truly memorable and enjoyable characters came from creating the character first and the character sheet second.

This is the reason the Fyxt RPG is designed this way, to help players make the best characters possible. Fyxt RPG is meant to have players create a character to fit a vision first. The Fyxt RPG is highly flexible. It is specifically designed to let players play exactly what they want. That is one of the things that makes the Fyxt RPG so amazing. In the Fyxt RPG, players create their character concept first, then assign Traits, Archetype, Style, Focus, Disciplines, Powers, Skills, and Specialties. This way players can build the mechanics and the stats to fit exactly what they want for their character.

Now that you have a good idea of your character, what it does, and how it does it, you can begin to assign the appropriate Fyxt RPG system mechanics to it. This system is streamlined, customizable and fun. This is the Fyxt RPG!

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